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allied to Sarrotrium, some Hispce, three small and not beau- 

 tiful species of Chlamys, several small Coccinellites, and a small 

 Lamellicorn allied to Psammodius. If you add to these a few 

 small Buprestites, a Cryjjtocephalus or so, an Antkicics, a few 

 Staphylinites, and a few Longicorns, one small and very singu- 

 lar in form, you will have a tolerable idea of our captures here. 

 I fancied that when the young grass grew up, and a few flowers 

 opened, we should have had better sweeping, but it is not so : 

 there is not now one-fifth of the insects to be swept that there 

 were in February. Since the woods have been getting into 

 leaf I have brushed a good many things off the oaks and 

 Andromedce^ the most curious of which is a small Curculionite 

 with enormously long posterior legs : of this I have taken but 

 three. When at Jacksonville, I found several specimens of a 

 minute Brachinus, of a rufo-ferruginous colour, with a dark 

 suture ; it had fixed its habitation in little bunches of leaves of 

 the Olea Americana, which had been spun together at the 

 extremities of the shoots by a Tortrix or Tinea ; it probably 

 feeds on the larva. I have before said that we have taken 

 only one Cicindela here ; this is of a uniform blue green. We 

 have but few Carabites, but R. Foster has taken the loveliest 

 little insect allied to Drypta that I have ever seen ; it is entirely 

 green-gold and copper. We have a few pretty Lehice and a 

 few Brachinidcs ; only two PasimacM ; the first of these was 

 running on the sand, the second under a piece of wood. There 

 are abundance of the elytra of PasimacM, but I guess that the 

 Towhee buntings eat many ground Coleoptera, for, go where 

 you will, you hear them scratching like so many chickens, and 

 crying out now and then " To-whee, to-whee." You may also 

 see the sweet little ground doves, with their drooping wings 

 and erect tails, hunting about for seeds and insects. I sadly 

 want to obtain a few of these doves, but do not Hke to kill 

 them ; they look so pretty and gentle, and make such a plain- 

 tive noise, that I can never hear them after having shot one, 

 without thinking that they are mourning their dead companion. 

 They are here called mourning doves. 



We have captured abundance of two species of Cetonia, of 

 one of them more than one hundred specimens, mostly taken 

 close by the house. Phanceus carnifex is not common, but I 

 have taken plenty of another species. We have a few Melo- 

 lonthites, a Geotrupes, and one coprophagous genus which I do 



